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Through the language glass : how words colour your world / Guy Deutscher.
Author
Deutscher, Guy, 1969-
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Language
English
Published/Created
London : William Heinemann, 2010.
Description
309 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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Firestone Library - Classics Collection
P35 .D465 2010b
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Language and culture
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Comparative linguistics
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Historical linguistics
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Language and languages in literature
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Language and color
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Summary note
Guy Deutscher argues that, contrary to the fashionable academic consensus of today, language does relate to culture and thought, does reflect our own culture and creates a lens through which we see the world.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-292) and index.
Contents
Naming the rainbow
A long-wave herring
The rude populations inhabiting foreign lands
Those who said our things before us
Plato and the Macedonian swineherd
Crying whorf
When the Sun doesn't rise in the east
Sex and syntax
Russian blues
Forgive us our ignorances.
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ISBN
9780434016907 ((hbk.))
043401690X ((hbk.))
OCLC
520727800
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